Employing state-of-the-art radio technology, the Freedom Keepsafe adopts a “parent and child” system to ensure items such as mobile phones, PDAs, Smartphones, laptops, wallets or MP3 players are not left behind, lost, or out in the cold. Simply by attaching the small and unobtrusive “child” unit to the item of value and having the “parent” unit in your pocket you will be alerted if the distance between the two units goes above 6 metres (20 feet).

PhotoVu announced the availability of the new PV1740 picture frame, which expands the PhotoVu product line. The PV1740 includes a custom frame and matte made to order, built-in support for Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 and Apple’s iPhoto photo management software, as well as an optional 40GB removable hard drive for stand-alone play.

Following the introduction of the GeForce Go 6 series of mobile graphics processing units, NVIDIA announced the GeForce Go 6600, a mobile GPU designed specifically to deliver cutting-edge multimedia functionality without sacrificing portability. The GeForce Go 6600 GPU is available from OEMs and ODMs including Acer, Asus, Gericom, Medion, Toshiba, and several other notebook suppliers worldwide.

NVIDIA announced the GoForce 3D 4800, their newest wireless media processor (WMP), which transforms multimedia performance on mobile devices for an unprecedented portable entertainment experience. This new WMP integrates highly realistic 3D graphics, multi-megapixel still imaging, high-quality video capture and playback that rivals home console gaming systems, digital cameras, and video camcorders.

SanDisk said Monday that it will sell a 1GB mini SD card for $100. The 1GB removable card has double the capacity of the current largest-capacity mini SD cards on the market. The 1GB SanDisk card will be able to store about 16 hours of songs or more than 2,000 digital images, according to the company. It will also come with an adapter allowing it to be used with Secure Digital card devices.

Ten instant messaging worms and their variants have spread over America Online, ICQ and MSN networks in the first six weeks of 2005 according to Akonix Systems. Akonix said the growth of malicious attacks targeting IM users will continue through the year, and enterprises should educate their employees about virus attacks and spam that spread via IM. Viruses and spam over instant messaging are on the rise, and companies fear the problem may mushroom the way it did via email.

Sony Ericsson will launch digital Walkman phones in March to better tap into the mobile music market. The new Walkman phones, which will be available early in the second half of 2005, will have large memory, good-quality headphones and the ability to easily import tracks from a personal computer and other devices. The Walkman phones will also be the first networked Walkmen to use open software standards for compression and piracy protection.

Nokia announced a long-term agreement to use longtime rival Microsoft’s technology to help transfer music between cell phones and computers. At the ongoing 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, Microsoft and Nokia said they plan to collaborate to help wireless customers use a service debuted by Nokia and digital-media specialist Loudeye. Nokia, in turn, will support Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Digital Rights Management and Media Transfer Protocol software in its handsets.

Senforce Technologies launched Senforce Endpoint Security Suite 3.0, a comprehensive, reliable solution for networked and standalone endpoint systems. The suite is based upon an integrated software solutions design that allows customers to easily embrace the security components that best meet their respective needs. A new, intuitive graphical user interface allows administrators to easily configure and monitor the suite, then create, manage and enforce security policies.

Microsoft announced a partnership with phone maker Flextronics to market a new cell phone platform running Windows Mobile to phone makers and service providers. The two companies said they have jointly developed a new phone platform called Peabody–a blueprint that cell providers can customize and which is designed to cut production costs. Peabody runs on GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) networks and GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), the data delivery arm of GSM networks.